Thursday, April 17, 2008

Is there a by-election coming?

Have just received a rather disturbing email suggesting a well respected Labour MP of long-standing and thorn in the Governments' side has passed away this evening. Nothing more to add to really.

Update: The news was confirmed last night on the wire sometime after midnight that Gwyneth Dunwoody MP died last night. She was a great Parliamentarian even if she was on the opposing political side to my own views. A genuine loss to Parliament.

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I read about the verbal pasting Gwyneth gave that horrid sewer-rat Blears over her decision to split my county of Cheshire into two councils against all reason. She seemed like a proper old MP, there to represent the people and speak up on thier behalf, something not true for most of her self-serving shitbag colleagues in NuLab. A real shame, the British people need more MP's like the late Gwyneth.

It's going to be an interesting by-election ... a majority of only about 7,000 last time around, much of it apparently Dunwoody's personal vote in a steadily gentrifying area. In other words, if Dave can't make this one happen, he's underperforming.

DC ought to win this if they are to form the next government. As politicalbetting reports, their record at these things is appalling.The LibDems are very good at it, although their present disarray may count against them.

A sad day for the Labour party. She was just about the only Labour MP I had any respect left for at all.

I think it's a very sad fact that every Labour MP who has died in the last ten years has been a decent person. Whereas every Labour MP who hasn't died in the last 10 years is a cunt who should be shot.

What has been interesting is that there is hardly anybody on TV or radio who can explain the motivation and dedication of the right wing of the Labour party which wouldn't touch the SDP; the core candle holders who outlived Foot and Kinnock, but who had to make way for NuLabour. Wrong, maybe, but heroically wrong.